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Furthermore, Knowles should put a stop to the witch-hunt atmosphere that currently pervades the archaeology wing. That witch-hunt to identify and presumably punish van der Merwe's accusers, is--almost unbelievably--acknowledged by the senior professors conducting it. As Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky told The Crimson, "People here have done a lot of work figuring out who has spoken to you. We know who is talking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Investigate Charges | 2/9/1994 | See Source »

Even more, the case fits into an almost satisfyingly easy moral mold; the dissipative Harding, the embittered loser in the last Olympiad, and the exalted Kerrigan, the winner, could just as easily be the Wicked Witch and Snow White. The public's fascination with the case is not unlike the rapt attention that little children pay to morally simplistic fairy tales...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Ice Saga Is No Fairytale | 2/5/1994 | See Source »

Mitchell described how Mc-Carthyism of the1950s strongly re-sembled "witch crazes" ofearlier centuries...

Author: By Marcus R. Wohlsen, | Title: Supernatural Class Offers Witches, Ouijas | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...women's long, weepy history of rape and abuse. On the anti side are feminist authors like Naomi Wolf and Wendy Kaminer, who claim that women have been turning away from feminism because they're sick and tired of hearing about victims and "victimology": foot binding, battering, genital mutilation, witch burnings and the like. Time to stop whining, the anti- victimhood feminists say, and go for the power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feminism Confronts Bobbittry | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...Power Rangers is choppy, video-game-paced fare that has the feel of a cheap Japanese monster movie, circa 1956. The premise: five teenagers (three boys and two girls) are transmogrified mid-episode into spandex-clad superheroes who battle the vile forces of Rita Repulsa, an intergalactic witch. Through a mix of kung-fu acrobatics, pummeling and pouncing, the Rangers manage to defeat whatever band of clunky, plastic robot- cretins Rita enjoins to cause trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mighty Raters | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

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